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NELSON R. MANOHAR-ALERS, PH.D.
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OBJECTIVE
Seeking a R&D programmer/engineer/scientist position where talent and experience can contribute to both group’s success and career growth are preferred. Strong preference placed towards mathematical, bioinformatics, software engineering, software systems, software engineering, life/earth sciences, telecom, and/or financial software applications.

SELECTED EXPERIENCE
UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN – ANN ARBOR
RESEARCH FELLOW, School of Information
Data mining of financial newsgroups and financial time series. Platforms used: Python, SQL, R, Perl, shell scripting, and basic network analysis on Windows and Linux platforms.

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Self-funded Research Scientist/Inventor
Developed rudimentary phylogenetics approach for near and distant DNA homologues by leveraging intrinsic structural patterns in transformed DNA sequences producing richly annotated sequence alignment, homology, and phylogenetics analyses. Platforms used: LISP, gnuplot, MS Excel, and HTML/CSS on Windows.

AT&T BELL LABORATORIES (BELL LABS, NOW LUCENT BELL LABS)
Member of the Technical Staff I
Became key member in a feature maintenance and testing team that was subsequently awarded Quality Improvement Recognition by International AT&T 5ESS. Platforms used: C, Unix, GNU debugger, C debugging toolset (ctrace, scope, cflow, lint, gdb, rcs/cvs, etc.), 5ESS simulation environment, DCIS6/SS7 protocols, call processing, trunk/line signaling, and ODD.

SELECTED EDUCATION
UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN, ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, USA
PH.D. IN COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, College of Engineeering

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
“ON STOCKS AND FINANCIAL SENTIMENT IN MESSAGE BOARDS”, Pending submission; University of Michigan, School of Information; 08/2009.
“APPROXIMATE PATTERN MATCH IN COMPRESSED DOMAIN” by Nelson Roberto Manohar-Alers, United States Provisional Patent Application, Application Num: 61,637/06, Filed: 2008-02-21.
“APPLYING STATISTICAL PROCESS CONTROL TO THE ADAPTIVE RATE CONTROL PROBLEM”, Manohar, Nelson R.; Willebeek-Lemair, Marc H.; Prakash, Atul; Proc. SPIE–The International Society for Optical Engineering, Vol. 3310, p. 42-56, Multimedia Computing and Networking 1998, Kevin Jeffay; Dilip D. Kandlur; Timothy Roscoe; Eds., 12/1997.

SELECTED PATENTS
“SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR INTEGRATED LOAD DISTRIBUTION AND RESOURCE MANAGEMENT ON INTERNET ENVIRONMENT”, by Leon L. Lumelsky and Nelson R. Manohar, US Patent 6,463,454, Filed on 1999-06-17, Granted on 2002-10-08, Assignee: The IBM Corporation.
“DYNAMIC CUSTOMIZED WEB TOURS” by Philip Shi-lung Yu, Marc Hubert Willebeek-LeMair, and Nelson R. Manohar, US Patent 6,572,662, Filed on 1998-05-15, Granted on 2003-06-03, Assignee: The IBM Corporation.

SELECTED EXPOSURE
SYSTEMS: UNIX/Linux, NextStep/MachOS, XP/cygwin, X11/Motif; SCRIPTING: Python, bash, DOS; LIBRARIES: multithreading, timing, I/O, audio, window system, sockets, sqlite, etc. PARADIGMS: client-server, overlay network, message passing, process groups, distributed objects, RPCs, callbacks, rules/constraint (e.g., OPS5); DATABASES: SQL, ER, 3NF, triggers, reports, partitioning.

SELECTED AWARDS
INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY (IC) POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP, U.S. Department of Defense, University of Michigan.
SECOND INVENTION PLATEAU, IBM Corporation, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center.

LANGUAGES
Fluent on both SPANISH and ENGLISH. Some basic reading comprehension of FRENCH.
Development experience to PYTHON, OBJECTIVE C, LISP, C, SHELL scripting. Some use of R, PERL, FORTRAN, and PASCAL.

CITIZENSHIP
U.S. CITIZEN
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NELSON R. MANOHAR-ALERS, PH.D.
? 411 S. FIFTH AVE. APT. #2, ANN ARBOR, MI 48104 ?
USA: +1 (734) 717-6902 ? USA: +1 (202) 741 9242 ? UK/EU: 44 20 7979 0625
? EMAIL OBFUSCATED ? linkedin.com/in/nelsonmanohar ? http://www3.webng.com/nelsonmanohar/nrm_research.htm ?

OBJECTIVE
Seeking a R&D programmer/scientist/engineer position where talent and experience can contribute to both group’s success and career growth are preferred. Preference placed towards mathematical, bioinformatics, software engineering, software systems, life/earth sciences, telecom, and/or financial software applications.

EXPERIENCE
UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR July 2008 to present
? Research Fellow
School of Information
• Data mining of financial newsgroups and financial time series.
• Platforms used: Python, SQLite, R, Perl, shell scripting, and basic network analysis on Windows and Linux platforms.

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January 2005 to April 2008
? Self-funded Research Scientist/Inventor
San German, PR, USA
• Research into pattern matching applied toward DNA homology. Developed rudimentary phylogenetics approach for near and distant DNA homologues by leveraging intrinsic structural patterns in transformed DNA sequences.
• Developed patent pending time-series transform for the sampling inversion problem capable of unearthing random presence, location, and time-scale of underlying (quasi or true) process states from within a time series and providing a segment-based bounded-error approximation suitable for adaptive process control.
• Developed html-based richly annotated sequence alignment, homology, and phylogenetics analyses.
• Platforms used: LISP, gnuplot, MS Excel, and HTML/CSS on Windows.

NELSONMANOHAR.ORG/.COM
? Principal May 2002 to July 2004
• Championing, discovery, documentation, and USDOJ Qui Tam filing related to financial markets and market shaping forces.

IBM THOMAS J. WATSON RESEARCH CENTER June 1999 to December 2001
? Research Staff Member
Multimedia Computing Networking Department, Multimedia Networking Department, Hawthorne, NY
• Participated on wide-area-network caching prototype for large multimedia object serving over internet2.
• Deployed and baselined IBM Websphere’s beta with small-footprint Java class code-caching prototype.
• Platforms used: Websphere, Linux, system administration, and bash/shell scripting.

IBM THOMAS J. WATSON RESEARCH CENTER
? Research Staff Member May 1997 to May 1999
Multimedia Computing Networking Department, Hawthorne, NY
• Developed flexible agent and policy-based framework for adaptive management of multimedia resources and capacities. Promoted overlay network architecture for coarse-grain adaptive rate control of multimedia resources.
• Developed position paper for application-level overlay networks for influencing the routing of multimedia flows.
• Developed algorithm for efficient handling of noisy time series via online estimation of statistical performance envelopes and statistical data-mining of time-scale and quasi-stationary conditions. Estimation of process envelope and state applied to the network bandwidth problem based on peering measurements.
• Platforms used: Excel spreadsheets, ping measurements, and Unix; object-oriented design and analysis, flow charts and scenario diagrams, UML, Rational Rose, and patents.

UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR
? Graduate Research Student Assistant May 1994 to May 1997
Software Systems Laboratory, CSE Division, EECS Department, Ann Arbor, MI
• Investigated and developed protocols for synchronized playback of heterogeneous streams (e.g., continuous media such as audio against fine-grained asynchronous re-execution events such as window events).
• Platforms used: NextStep platform (now part of Mac OS), Unix, C and ObjectiveC, InterfaceBuilder, multimedia programming, multi-threaded programming, and statistical process control.

BELL COMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH (BELLCORE) Summer Intern, 1992
? Member of the Technical Staff
Computer Technology Transfer Department, Piscataway, New Jersey, USA
• Developed callback handling modules for user interface, database, and reporting modules in Advanced Intelligent Network transaction accounting prototype used to promote transfer of distributed computing technology and analyze its performance, ease of use, robustness, modularity benefits.
• Platforms used: DCE/CORBA, X11 windows programming, Gnu database library, C, Unix/BSD, and profiling.

AT&T BELL LABORATORIES (BELL LABS, NOW LUCENT BELL LABS)
? Member of the Technical Staff I September 1990 to December 1990
AT&T Bell Labs field work (see below) at La Telefonica, Madrid (Alcobendas), Spain
Manager: A. Barshefsky, J. Sharpless
• Performed field-testing and verification tests of Advanced Intelligent Network call-processing at Telefonica’s Madrid 5ESS office, being deployed for the 1992 Spain Olympics. At Bilbao’s 5ESS office, verified office bring-up and software maintenance, trunk signaling and maintenance, and database population. Fielded important modification requests and became valuable contributor during field-testing.
• Platforms used: C, Unix, GNU debugger, profiling and tracing tools, simulation environment, code versioning system, bug reporting and tracking, regression tests, AT&T 5ESS call processing, 5ESS office trunk and line signaling hardware, 5ESS office (ODD) databases, MCT call trace, NMOS network management, SS7/MFE signaling, and CCITT specifications.

? Member of the Technical Staff I June 1987 to March 1991
International Features Development Department, Naperville, IL
Manager: J. McIntosh, J. Sharpless
• Applied extended finite state machine analysis (E-FSM) to reverse engineering and document signaling protocol (DCIS6) between 5ESS switch to external AIN-based resource.
• Based on such reverse engineering analysis, modified 5ESS simulation’s call flow with AIN-specific breakpoints intended to simulate interfacing to external AIN-based resources.
• Became key member in a feature maintenance and testing team that was subsequently awarded Quality Improvement Recognition by International AT&T 5ESS.
• Platforms used: C, Unix, GNU debugger, C debugging toolset (ctrace, scope, cflow, lint, etc.), 5ESS simulation environment, finite state machine modeling, CCITT red/blue book specifications, and DCIS6 and SS7 protocols.

? Senior Technical Associate Summer Intern, 1986
International Features Development Department, Naperville, IL
Manager: T. Brinkman, J. Sharpless
• Measured performance of UNIX network interface on 3B2 computer over Ethernet. Learned Unix, Shell, and C programming language; implemented measurements data probe and analyzed network I/O performance results.
• Platforms used: C, Unix, shell programming, LANanalyzer Ethernet packet sniffer, Unix device I/O, 3B2 network interface, TEX document processing, vi editor, and S statistical analysis and plotting.

EDUCATION
UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN, ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, USA
? Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science May 1997
• Research on multimedia synchronization protocols and support for asynchronous groupware.

? M.S.E. in Industrial and Operations Engineering
Department of Industrial and Operations Engineering December 1992
• Graduate coursework and report on statistical process control and information systems.

UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN, MADISON, WISCONSIN, USA
? M.S. in Computer Engineering
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering August 1988
• Graduate coursework and report on computer organization for signal processing.

UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO, MAYAGUEZ, PUERTO RICO, USA
? B.S. in Computer Engineering
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering May 1987
• Engineering coursework on hardware design, signal processing, and computer engineering.

PUBLICATIONS
“ON STOCKS AND FINANCIAL SENTIMENT ON MESSAGE BOARDS”, Pending submission.
“A FRAMEWORK FOR PROGRAMMABLE MULTIMEDIA OVERLAY NETWORKS” by N. R. Manohar, A. Mehra, M. H. Willebeek-LeMair and M. Naghshineh, in IBM J. of Research and Development, Special Issue on Digital Video, 43(4), July/August 1999

“APPLYING STATISTICAL PROCESS CONTROL TO THE ADAPTIVE RATE CONTROL PROBLEM”, Manohar, Nelson R.; Willebeek-Lemair, Marc H.; Prakash, Atul; Proc. SPIE–The International Society for Optical Engineering, Vol. 3310, p. 42-56, Multimedia Computing and Networking 1998, Kevin Jeffay; Dilip D. Kandlur; Timothy Roscoe; Eds., 12/1997.

“A FLEXIBLE ARCHITECTURE FOR HETEROGENEOUS REPLAYABLE WORKSPACES” by Nelson R. Manohar and Atul Prakash, in Proc. of the Third IEEE Int’l Conference on Multimedia Computing and Systems, pp. 274-278, Hiroshima, Japan. June 1996

“DEALING WITH SYNCHRONIZATION AND TIMING VARIABILITY IN THE PLAYBACK OF INTERACTIVE SESSION RECORDINGS” by Nelson R. Manohar and Atul Prakash, in Proc. Of the Third ACM Int’l Multimedia Conference, pp. 45-56. San Francisco, CA, November 1995

“THE SESSION CAPTURE AND REPLAY PARADIGM FOR ASYNCHRONOUS COLLABORATION” by Nelson R. Manohar and Atul Prakash, in Proc. Of the Fourth ECSCW Conference, pp. 149-164. Stockholm, Sweden, September 1995

“ASYNCHRONOUS COLLABORATION VIA RECORD AND REPLAY OF TEMPORAL MULTIMEDIA STREAMS” by Nelson R. Manohar and Atul Prakash, Presented in CSCW’94 Workshop on Multimedia Infrastructure for Collaboration, Durham, North Carolina, USA, November 1994. Published in ACM SIGOIS Bulletin, 15(2):32-34, December 1994.

PATENTS
“APPROXIMATE PATTERN MATCH IN COMPRESSED DOMAIN” by Nelson Roberto Manohar-Alers, United States Provisional Patent Application, Application Num: 61,637/06, Filed: 2008-02-21. This approach integrates a feature extraction form to pattern mining in the analysis of DNA homology. First, a data reduction technique is applied to significantly reduce the size of input sequences while retaining certain structural features. Then, an approximate pattern match is applied to uncover the presence of approximate homologues of a structural signature expressed in terms of said intrinsic feature. Finally, an optimized alignment technique, taking advantage of said structural signature, is applied to each such approximate homologue to verify alignment under a relaxed level of mismatches, inserts, deletes, transpositions, and structural re-arrangements…
“SYSTEM FOR SEAMLESS STREAMING OF DATA STORED ON A NETWORK OF DISTRIBUTED PRIMARY AND TARGET SERVERS USING SEGMENTATION INFORMATION EXCHANGED AMONG ALL SERVERS DURING STREAMING”, by Leon L. Lumelsky and Nelson R. Manohar, US Patent 6,377,996, Filed on 1999-06-17, Granted on 2002-10-01, Assignee: The IBM Corporation.
“MANAGEMENT OF SERVICE-ORIENTED RESOURCES ACROSS HETEROGENEOUS MEDIA SERVERS USING HOMOGENOUS SERVICE UNITS AND SERVICE SIGNATURES TO CONFIGURE THE MEDIA SERVERS”, by Leon L. Lumelsky and Nelson R. Manohar, US Patent 6,460,082, Filed on 1999-06-17, Granted on 2002-10-01, Assignee: The IBM Corporation.
“SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR INTEGRATED LOAD DISTRIBUTION AND RESOURCE MANAGEMENT ON INTERNET ENVIRONMENT”, by Leon L. Lumelsky and Nelson R. Manohar, US Patent 6,463,454, Filed on 1999-06-17, Granted on 2002-10-08, Assignee: The IBM Corporation.
“SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CAPACITY SHAPING IN AN INTERNET ENVIRONMENT”, by Leon L. Lumelsky and Nelson R. Manohar, US Patent 6,466,980, Filed: 1999-06-17, Granted: 2002-10-15, Assignee: The IBM Corporation.
“SELF-REGULATED RESOURCE MANAGEMENT OF DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER RESOURCES”, by Leon L. Lumelsky, Nelson R. Manohar, and Stephen P. Wood, US Patent 6,516,350, Filed on 1999-06-17, Granted on 2003-02-04, Assignee: The IBM Corporation.
“POLICY-BASED MULTIVARIATE APPLICATION-LEVEL QOS NEGOTIATION FOR MULTIMEDIA SERVICES”, by Leon L. Lumelsky, Nelson R. Manohar, and Stephen P. Wood, US Patent 6,529,950, Filed on 1999-06-17, Granted on 2003-03-04, Assignee: The IBM Corporation.
“DYNAMIC CUSTOMIZED WEB TOURS” by Philip Shi-lung Yu, Marc Hubert Willebeek-LeMair, and Nelson R. Manohar, US Patent 6,572,662, Filed on 1998-05-15, Granted on 2003-06-03, Assignee: The IBM Corporation.

TALKS
? ACM CSCW94, presentation of position paper in workshop, Chapel Hill, NC, Oct. 1994.
? ECSCW95, presentation of conference, Stockholm, Sweden, Sep. 1995.
? ACM-MM95, presentation of conference paper, San Francisco, CA, Nov. 1995.
? Compaq Labs, research presentation at interview, Houston, TX, Oct. 1996.
? HP Labs, research presentation at interview, Palo Alto, CA, Nov. 1996.
? IBM Thomas J. Watson, research presentation at interview, Hawthorne, NY, Nov. 1996.
? Siemens Corporate Research, presentation at interview, Dec. 1996, Princeton, NJ.
? Lucent Bell Labs Research, presentation at interview, Naperville, IL, Jan. 1997.
? Lucent Bell Labs Research, presentation at interview, Murray Hill, NJ, Jan. 1997.
? MMCN98, presentation of conference paper, San Jose, CA, January 1998.
? Intelligence Community (IC) Post Doctoral Symposium, poster presentation, Centreville, Virginia, 2009.

HONORS
? IBM Second Plateau, Invention Achievement Award, Dec. 2001, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Hawthorne, NY.
? IBM First Plateau, Invention Achievement Award, Jul. 1999, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Hawthorne, NY.
? 5ESS Quality Improvement Recognition, Nov. 1990, AT&T Bell Laboratories, International 5ESS Development, Naperville, IL.
? AT&T Early Offer, Oct. 1986, AT&T Bell Laboratories, Naperville, IL.
? National Collegiate Engineering Award, Mar. 1987, The University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez, PR.
? National Dean’s List, 1984, The University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez, PR

THESIS
“Interactive Asynchronous-Sharing of Computer-Supported Workspaces via the Record and Replay of Re-Executable Content” Ph.D Thesis by Nelson R. Manohar, CSE Division, EECS Department, College of Engineering, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, May 1997.
? Research Description: Pioneered asynchronous collaboration paradigm via the replay of (annotated but re-executable) computer sessions. Underlying this, developed adaptive synchronization algorithms for capture and playback of asynchronous fine-grained re-executable events (e.g., DisplayPS events) against real-time continuous media (e.g., audio stream). To further support this, introduced the application of statistical quality control techniques in media scheduling and synchronization. Developed and demonstrated use of a relaxed statistical process control monitoring layer as an adaptive rate control software systems middleware.

COURSEWORK
? UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN, DEPT. OF ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING
• Design and Analysis of Algorithms
• Introduction to Algorithms
• Distributed Databases
• Database Management Systems
• Advanced Software Engineering (Special Topics)
• Software Engineering Tools
• Parallelizing Compiler Design (Special Topics)
• Introduction to Artificial Intelligence
? UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN, DEPT. OF INDUSTRIAL AND OPERATIONS ENGINEERING
• Forecasting and Time Series Analysis
• Linear Programming
• Design of Industrial Experiments
• Statistical Quality Control
• Theories of Administration
• Management Information Systems
? UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN, DEPT. OF ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING
• Array Architectures for Signal Processing (Special Topics)
• Advanced Computer Architecture I
• Testing and Testable Design of Digital Systems (Special Topics)
• Introduction to Computer Architecture
• Advanced Operating Systems
• Computer Networking
? University of Puerto Rico, Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering
• Digital Signal Processing (DSP I) and Communication Systems Design (DSP II)
• Digital Systems Design I and II
• Network Analysis I, II, and III
• Numerical Analysis
• Linear Algebra
• Theory of Communications
• Introduction to Operating Systems
• Compiler Design

SKILLS
? SYSTEMS:
o ADMINISTRATION: UNIX, BSD, Solaris, NextStep.
o POWER USER: UNIX, BSD, Solaris, Windows XP, Macs, NextStep, and VMware.
o USER: Linux, Ubuntu, and VMware.
? PROGRAMMING:
o SCRIPTING: shell scripting, regular expressions, etc.
o DEBUGGING: GNU debugger and compiler, C toolset (gcc, cscope, cflow, ctrace, make, lint), vi, etc.
o X WINDOWS: Motif and X11 windows programming libraries.
o LIBRARIES: multithreading, timing, I/O, audio, window system, sockets, math, SQL, etc.
o PARADIGMS: client-server, overlay network, message passing, process groups, distributed objects, callbacks, rule/constraint-based programming (e.g., OPS5), systolic arrays, parallelizing compiler optimizations, etc.
o DATABASES: database design (e.g., normalization, queries, audits, triggers, reports, projections, partitioning), SQL (e.g., queries), and entity-relationship (ER) modeling and design (e.g., 3NF), etc.
o DESIGN: CCITT SDLs (scenario-based modeling), finite state machines (protocol design), object-oriented design/analysis (OOD/OOA), Rational Rose, UML, use cases, class diagrams, class specification, etc.

AWARDS
? INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY (IC) POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP, http://www.icpostdoc.org/about.cfm, U.S. Department of Defense, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor.
? IBM SECOND INVENTION PLATEAU, IBM Corporation, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center.
? RACKHAM MERIT FELLOWSHIP, Rackham School of Graduate Studies, https://umich-rackham.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/umich_rackham.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=1563, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor.
? AT&T ONE YEAR ON CAMPUS, AT&T Corporation, University of Wisconsin – Madison.
? NATIONAL DEAN’S LIST, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez.

LANGUAGES
? Fluent on both SPANISH and ENGLISH. Some basic reading comprehension of FRENCH.

CITIZENSHIP
? U.S. CITIZEN

Last updated on Thursday, August 20, 2009.

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